2016-01-05, 20:26
By co-incidence there is a user complaining that video playlists work in the way I describe http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=254874
Music and video are in the same boat with this respect. If a playlist or filter type custom node is showing a list of artists because they have songs that satisfy some rule, then drilling down by clicking on them does not apply the same filter.
Folder type custom nodes do behave like default nodes, so filtering by genre in a folder type node will pass down. Until path rules apply to artists and albums in Krypton try things like:
Music and video are in the same boat with this respect. If a playlist or filter type custom node is showing a list of artists because they have songs that satisfy some rule, then drilling down by clicking on them does not apply the same filter.
Folder type custom nodes do behave like default nodes, so filtering by genre in a folder type node will pass down. Until path rules apply to artists and albums in Krypton try things like:
Code:
<node order="1" type="folder">
<label>Spanish Artists</label>
<icon>DefaultMusicGenres.png</icon>
<path>musicdb://artists/?genre=Spanish</path>
</node>